1) Other, namely Douay-Rheims: All-around, conservative, beautiful translation, has almost all our books in one volume (I think 3/4 Macc and Ps 151 are the only ones not in it, and we don't use those liturgically anyway that I'm aware of)

2) OSB: Useful in that it's got the LXX as its base text, so if I need to do a quick textual comparison, I can w/out too much trouble. That said...I'm not impressed with this. When something better comes along (EOB, perhaps?) this will probably become a "freebie" for whomever wants it...

3)KJV: a classic, though limited in its scope and more archaic than the D-R, sometimes sacrificing readability.

I generally use a KJV Thompson Chain-Reference Bible. Sometimes I consult the NKJV or NIV, usually online. I don't use an Orthodox version simply because I don't own one yet, though I plan on buying one eventually. I doubt any Bible will supplant the main one I use now, however.

I have an Orthodox Study Bible, Brenton's LXX, and the EOB New Testament. I really like the way Brenton's is set up. I wish I could get an Orthodox Bible with English on one side and Greek on the other.

I am curious what Bible translation is most popular for Eastern Christians. You may select up to three versions.

My own choices, by the way, are the Orthodox Study Bible, the New King James Version, the Revised Standard Version.

What??!!!

Where is the Douai-Rheims?

My front line translation for sure. Just picked up the Orthodox Study Bible and have not had much of a chance to read it. I am worried a bit since much of the modern Orthodox "scholarship" seems heavily contaminated by Protestant textual criticism.

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I would be happy to agree with you, but then both of us would be wrong.

I like the RSV quite a bit, esp the Ignatius 2nd CE one which I just picked up. Granted the OT is derived from the Masoretic, but the Oxford Annotated has footnotes that shows different words used in the LXX.

KJV is too archaic for me, it's like reading Shakespeare.

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“There is your brother, naked, crying, and you stand there confused over the choice of an attractive floor covering.”

KJV's language is much simpler and more straightforward than Shakespeare.

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But it had not been in Tess's power - nor is it in anybody's power - to feel the whole truth of golden opinions while it is possible to profit by them. She - and how many more - might have ironically said to God with Saint Augustine, "Thou hast counselled a better course than thou hast permitted."